Lu Mingfei Development Program

Chapter 578 The End of the World

Ange's fingers gently stroked the edge of the photo frame, and his eyes seemed to penetrate time and return to that morning a hundred years ago. In the photo frame was a yellowed old photo of a group of young explorers.

They stood on a desolate snowfield, with towering icebergs and snow in the background. Although they looked tired, they could not hide the excitement and anticipation in their eyes.

Lu Mingfei knew this. This was the original Lionheart Society, a society formed by a group of the most outstanding mixed-bloods from all over the world a hundred years ago, when the mixed-bloods’ bloodlines had not yet faded.

Angers, who has now become a leader of the mixed-race society, even seemed a little inconspicuous among such a group of high-spirited young people at that time.

"It was the summer of 1900, and the elite of the Lionheart Society, including me, headed for the Arctic Circle." Angé spoke slowly, his voice low and hoarse.

He continued, "At that time, the North and South Poles were two new 'new continents' for everyone. Countless people wanted to leave their footprints there so that they could claim that they had reached the end of the world. Even we did not expect that we would successfully reach the North Pole."

Lu Mingfei listened quietly. The first time humans set foot on the North Pole was in 1909, when two explorers claimed to have reached the North Pole. However, due to the lack of solid evidence, many people were skeptical about the results of those two expeditions.

But according to what Ange said, they were the first people to reach the North Pole.

"At that time, the secret party believed that under the ice caps at the two poles of the world, there was an ultimate secret hidden that we didn't know... Although it was later proved to be true, we found nothing during the expedition to the North Pole." He sighed.

Then he continued: "The North Pole at that time has not changed much from now. The endless icebergs and snow fields seem to indicate that our expedition has failed. But we did not fail. The real discovery was made on our way back."

"We are heading from Greenland to the North Pole..." At this point, Angers explained to Lu Mingfei, "That's why your parents told you they were there. In fact, their range of activities is the entire North Pole."

"I know." Lu Mingfei nodded silently.

Through the terminal given by Figel, he was able to know the activities of Lu's father and mother. The route map that covered almost the entire Arctic Circle would shock him even now.

Ange took a sip from the teacup and continued, "After leaving the North Pole, we plan to enter Tsarist Russia. The secret party received news that a monk named Rasputin appeared in Russia. It is said that he has the ability to heal injuries through prayer."

Rasputin, the most famous saint, heretic, and lecher in Russian history, was a guy hated by both nobles and commoners in Tsarist Russia at that time. It can be said that he was also partially responsible for the subsequent collapse of Tsarist Russia.

"We suspect that he has awakened his bloodline ability, and we plan to find him before he causes bigger trouble." Angé explained the reason for their trip to Russia.

In fact, Rasputin later caused a lot of trouble, and the most exciting one was probably his death. It is said that he ate food mixed with enough poison to kill five people at a banquet specially prepared for his assassination.

But Rasputin did not react, as if he really had the power to heal injuries and diseases as the rumors said. This forced his assassin to shoot through his lungs, but even so, Rasputin did not die.

He tried to escape, and was shot three times, one of which hit his head. But even so, he did not die. In the end, the assassins smashed his head and threw him into the ice cave.

When they went to check the body of the evil monk the next day, they found that even in such a desperate situation, he still survived for a while... Even for a half-blood, such vitality is embarrassing.

"It seems that you didn't find him." Lu Mingfei said softly.

If the secret party had met with Rasputin earlier and told him some of the unspoken rules of the mixed-blood society, he probably wouldn't have caused such a big incident in the future and almost ruined the country.

Anger nodded and sighed regretfully: "That's right, we didn't see Rasputin. However, we found traces of his activities on the snowfields north of Siberia."

He talked about what happened later in a tired voice...

Meinecke Cassel disagreed and immediately entered the cave blocked by the cold iron door. It took them a lot of energy to cross the entire pole. Moreover, the remaining supplies were not enough to support them in an unknown adventure.

In particular, there was a sealed message on the iron door. The person who left the message was the target of their trip, the "saint" Rasputin who was famous in Tsarist Russia.

No one knows how this future evil monk came here, how he found such a cave on this permafrost that had been frozen for thousands of years, and what he saw in the cave that made him seal it like this.

This extremely strange scene made Menek plan to wait until he was fully prepared before setting foot here again.

However, excitement filled the air of the entire expedition team.

The failure of the expedition to the North Pole made everyone extremely depressed. They didn't care about the honor of the first group of people to reach the North Pole. What they cared about was the ultimate secret left by the race that ruled the world before humans.

And now, the ultimate secret may be behind such an iron door.

In the end, Menek agreed to enter the cave. They spent a lot of effort to break the seal of the cave. The iron door, which was so heavy that it was impossible to be cast in this icy and snowy place, made them believe that the ultimate secret of this world was behind the door.

But when they saw what was inside the cave, everyone was stunned... There was nothing here.

The huge disappointment made the group of young people extremely angry. They searched almost the entire cave and after countless searches, they finally confirmed that there was really nothing here. The iron door and the advice at the entrance were like a prank played on them by the evil monk they were looking for.

Angers still remembers that when they left the cave, everyone was silent. The proud Lionheart Society had failed to gain anything twice in a row, which was a great blow to this group of excellent hybrids... But the accident happened under such circumstances.

The first person to notice something was wrong was Lu Shanyan, whose word spirit was Kamaitachi, and when he entered the cave, he had been letting those invisible spirits spread all over the road they came from. But now, he could not sense the invisible spirits he had left behind.

Everyone got out of the decadent atmosphere and moved forward cautiously. There was nothing wrong along the way, but when they approached the cave entrance, the ominous red light emanating from outside made everyone feel genuinely terrified.

Menech was the first person to step forward. As the leader of the Lionheart Society, he always walked ahead of everyone else. Ange saw him walk into the cave entrance, peer out from the edge, and then freeze like a Siberian glacier, not responding to the calls from the people behind him. Everyone stepped forward worriedly, and then saw the unforgettable scene...

The sky was deadly dark, and the wind stopped blowing. The snowfield turned into dry and broken earth, as if all the water had dried up. The flames also lost their temperature, and the no longer flowing magma spread across the earth, like the hideous and disgusting scars of some giant creature.

As far as the eye can see, a towering mountain that seems to be connected to the sky is looming in the mist. It is the only thing that can be seen in the sky.

Someone figured out what happened in a short time, and he trembled as he spoke out his discovery - the world seemed to be destroyed.

A huge fear once again lingered in everyone's heads. They had stayed in the cave for quite a long time, but it was definitely not so long that they could not notice the end of the world.

Menek was the first to calm down. He calmly assigned tasks and asked everyone to collect as much intelligence as possible. Although he himself did not believe in such speculation, they seemed to have discovered the ultimate of the world.

...But this ultimate result is unacceptable to everyone.

Not long after the mission was issued, someone brought back his intelligence. When he looked out from a broken rock wall, he found that there seemed to be something on the dry coastline in the distance, which seemed to be a huge man-made object.

After discussion, Menek asked some people to guard the entrance of the cave, and the rest of them went to the huge man-made structure.

"...Now that I think about it, if Menech had been more cautious at the time and let everyone go back to the cave to rest before coming out, then what happened later would not have happened." Angé took off his glasses again, buried his face in his hands, and his fingers kept tearing at his gray hair.

Lu Mingfei looked at him in silence, and did not immediately ask what happened. He felt a dead air lingering around the old man in front of him, as if what he was about to say next was the reason for him to insist on living.

The cabin was so quiet that only the sound of the plane's engine could be heard. After a long while, Angers raised his head again and looked at Lu Mingfei with his bloodshot eyes: "After we got there, we found that the man-made object was a giant statue. And a tiny light-emitting thing, like a seed, was quietly lying in the hand of the giant."

Lu Mingfei was stunned. It turned out that the things lost by Xia Mi during the ancient war were found by the first generation of the Lionheart Society.

He suddenly pulled out a piece of paper from the tea table and sketched the outline of the Zero on it: "Take a look, is this it?"

Ange stared at the paper intently, and sighed at the simple drawing of the Son of God behind the door: "It's him, but it's much rougher than your drawing, and it seems to have not been polished yet."

Lu Mingfei stopped talking. In Xia Mi's memory, a certain existence took him away and stripped his dragon heart from him. But now it seems that this was some kind of exchange.

Use his heart in exchange for Zero.

But why did he do this? Was the "God" who took him away from Xia Mi and was buried by him really dead as he thought? And what was the meaning of His doing this?

"We managed to climb up the statue and took the seed." Angers continued, his voice so hoarse, as if a dead person was speaking, "...but the result of doing so was the collapse of the dead world."

A huge crack appeared from the bottom of the colossus, and then immediately turned into a bottomless abyss, madly swallowing everything around it.

The man who climbed up the colossus was swallowed by the abyss before he could react. Before he died, he threw the seed in his hand to the edge of the crack, and Ange subconsciously reached out and caught it.

The seeds exuded a gentle scent, warming up his body, which was a little frozen after traveling through the polar regions.

Before he could react, someone suddenly patted him from behind. It was Menek. He vaguely realized that they were holding something extraordinary, and the sudden change was caused by the taking away of this thing.

Without time to think, Ange was urged by Menek and the others to run back. The cracks were still spreading, and while he was distracted, he swallowed up several lives.

Ange had never run so slowly before. The Word Spirit he possessed was Time Zero, which made him faster than everyone else. However, Lu Shanyan concluded the reason why his Kamaitachi disappeared. The Word Spirit could not be released on this land. On this land where the elements had been extinct, no matter how powerful the Word Spirit was, it was not as good as a good physique.

Lu Shanyan fell in front of the cave, and the invisible crack seemed to be an ambush, swallowing him and the people guarding the entrance.

Without time to mourn the death of their companions, Ange and Menech ran into the cave together. In fact, they didn't know whether it was right to flee here, but they had nowhere else to go.

What was more devastating than the failure of the two expeditions was that the elite of the proud Lionheart Society were the only ones who survived. Angers also knew that it was wrong to be distracted at this time, but the resolute look in his companion's eyes before he threw the seeds to him and fell into the abyss made him tremble.

He finally paid the price for his distraction, and he stepped directly into another trap. The moment his body lost balance, he subconsciously wanted to throw the seeds in his hand to Menek beside him.

The other person's bloodline is far superior to his own, and his physique is stronger. He is the only one who can escape from here with the seeds...if he can escape.

But to Ange's surprise, he did not see Menech beside him, but saw him in the crack below him. Menech fell into the crack earlier than him.

At the moment of death, Ange felt extremely calm, but he felt a little regretful that he could not catch the seeds he threw. But at this moment, he felt someone push him again.

Again, Menech would have accelerated his fall by doing so, but instead, Ange was pushed to the edge of the surface, which had not yet collapsed.

He almost rolled back into the iron gate. At this moment, he suddenly understood the meaning of the advice written on the door.

Rasputin had been to this place before. He saw the end of the world, but he did not check it out. Instead, he quickly returned to the original world by some unknown method. Then he forged the door and completely sealed it off.

But after that, a group of people who were seeking the ultimate of the world opened the door again.

(End of this chapter)